InQ Thinking Styles Test-- Harrison and Bramson

[ygolo]

60 SYNTHESIST
55 ANALYST
53 IDEALIST
52 PRAGMATIST
50 REALIST

 

[BlahBlahNounBlah]

Pragmatist / Analyst


None of my scores were above 60, but Pragmatist (57), Analyst (56), Realist (55), and Synthesist (54) were close. Idealist (48) was the lowest.


I'm reading the descriptions. Analyst is wrong, and synthesist should have ranked much higher. Despite the test score, I'm a Pragmatist/Synthesist.

 

[Virtual ghost]

SYNTHESIST 76

IDEALIST 41

PRAGMATIST 66

ANALYST 45

REALIST 41

 

[GHC]

53 SYNTHESIST
49 IDEALIST
56 PRAGMATIST
63 ANALYST
49 REALIST

So I'm a Analyst/Pragmatist thinker.

 

[Litvyak]

Is it possible that my two highest scores were "idealist" and "realist"? It seems to be contradictory.

 

[Queen Kat]

Wow, I am SO balanced!

47 SYNTHESIST

54 IDEALIST

56 PRAGMATIST

56 ANALYST

57 REALIST

 

[Jaguar]

Is it possible that my two highest scores were "idealist" and "realist"? It seems to be contradictory.

Your scores were:

45 Analyst
51 Pragmatist
53 Synthesist
55 Realist
66 Idealist


Only scores 60 and above indicate an actual preference.

I would not start comparing your Idealist and Realist score,
since your Synthesist and Pragmatist aren't far behind.

You have to look at what all your scores are really "saying."
I see an overall flat pattern with them, except for the Idealist.
That's why you scored 66.
Perhaps it's subconscious on your part, but it's there.

Wait awhile and then do a retest.
I have taken that test 5 or 6 times in the last 2 years,
and my scores have always indicated the same thing.
I'm a Synthesist-Realist. (Balancing contradiction! )

If you're interested, I highly suggest getting Harrison and Bramson's book:
THE ART OF THINKING.
(A copy of the test is also in the book.)

I have it here on my desk.
It's a good read.

 

[Orangey]

Okay I read the "how to know a __________ when you see one..." parts for each of the thinking styles in that book (on Amazon just now), and the synthesist sounds just like how I behave, and how people have told me that I behave. Yet synthesist was my lowest score on the test. I wonder what's going on with that?

 

[fusetah]

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Take one:
____________
(did this test while fighting not to fall asleep)
51 synthesist
47 realist
68 pragmatist
52 idealist
52 analyst

Am I lazy?


Take two:
____________
("better" state of mind, not "high" due to low bloodsugar and bad sleep)
42 synthesist
55 realist
59 pragmatist
57 idealist
57 analyst

Which factors might influence ur results in this test?
Exept the obvious ones;

You want to be a certain thinking style, and therfor choosing options for beneficial "visual" result(thinking style never really changed)
You are tired, and therefor stressing through the test(why take it in the first place then)
...
...

My synthesist score went down 9 points. Could you say, just to be as vague I can be as possible, that certain thinking styles are more active during certain mental-stages?

 

[BlackCat]

I don't remember my exact scores, but I'm a Synthesist/Realist.

 

[lunalum]

61 Realist
60 Pragmatist
51 Synthesist
49 Idealist
49 Analyst

A realist? Seriously? I am both a cyber kitten/moon from Alpha Centauri and a Realist-Pragmatist? Get real!


....Oh, wait.

 

[JustHer]

None of mine are above 60, I feel like I somehow failed.

 

[BlackCat]

None of mine are above 60, I feel like I somehow failed.

You clearly just don't think.

 

[King sns]

None of mine are above 60, I feel like I somehow failed.

Haha.. I felt the same way..
It means you're "balanced"
but I wanted to be more unique.

But no. Just your regular ol'
lazy realist/pragmatist/idealist with no strong preferences.

 

[Jaguar]

None of mine are above 60, I feel like I somehow failed.

Apparently there is no particular preference you have developed, and trust, well enough that you use it all the time.
There is no winning or losing here. The scores merely reflect your thinking style(s) and their strength of preference.

 

[NewEra]

I got Realist.

Realist: 64
Idealist: 55
Analyst: 53
Synthesist: 50
Pragmatist: 48

 

[Jaguar]

I got Realist.

Realist: 64
Idealist: 55
Analyst: 53
Synthesist: 50
Pragmatist: 48

I knew you would hit over 60 on Realist.

 

[NewEra]

I knew you would hit over 60 on Realist.

haha good job.

 

[QuentinBeck]

45 SYNTHESIST
54 IDEALIST
56 PRAGMATIST
60 ANALYST
55 REALIST

 

[Colors]

Another "flat" person.

59 - IDEALIST
59 - REALIST
58 - SYNTHESIST

47 - PRAGMATIST
47 - ANALYST

I'm not surprised by the low pragmatist score (I am not flexible like that). Reading the longer descriptions and the rest though, I don't know. I relate to being drawn to argumentation (and people often think I am being confrontative rather than just blunt/ cutting straight to the conflict) and the union of opposites of the synthesist (is anything as clear as when it's in sharp relief?). But that also pulls out the similarities, and I used to often think there was an elegant "everyone logical will agree with this if we just looked longer" solution like the analyst- not so much anymore though. I am not as agreeable as the longer description of the idealist seems to espouse. As for realism? At some point the rubber hits the road. Talk is cheap.